Wednesday Meditation

From For the “Inward Journey” by Howard Thurman, page 38:

​​“As long as you have a dream in your heart, you cannot lose the significance of living. It is a part of the pretensions of modern life to traffic in what is generally called “realism.” There is much insistence upon being practical, down to earth. Such things as dreams are wont to be regarded as romantic or as a badge of immaturity, or as escape hatches for the human spirit. When such a mood or attitude is carefully scrutinized, it is found to be made up largely of pretensions, in short, of bluff. You cannot continue long to live if the dream in the heart has perished. It is then that you stop hoping, stop looking, and the last embers of your anticipations fade away.

​The dream in the heart is the outlet. It is one with the living water welling up from the very springs of Being, nourishing and sustaining all of life. Where there is no dream, the life becomes a swamp, a dreary dead place and, deep within, one’s heart begins to rot. The dream is the quiet persistence in the heart that enables you to ride out the storms of your churning experiences. It is the exciting whisper moving through the aisles of your spirit answering the monotony of limitless days of dull routine. It is the ever-recurring melody in the midst of the broken harmony and harsh discords of human conflict. It is the touch of significance, which highlights the ordinary experience, the common event.

​The dream is no outward thing. It does not take its rise from the environment in which one moves or functions. It lives in the inward parts; it is deep withn, where the issues of life and death are ultimately determined. Keep alive the dream, for, as long as you have a dream in your heart, you cannot lose the significance of living.”

The Dream of God by Verna Dozier

“The dream of God is that all creation will live together in peace, harmony and fulfillment. All parts of creation. And the dream of God is that the good creation that God created and then said ‘it is good’ will be restored…

God has paid us the high compliment of calling us to be coworkers with our Creator, a compliment so awesome that we have fled from it and taken refuge in the church. The urgent task for us is to reclaim our identity as the people of God and live into our high calling as the baptized community … that the dream of God for a new creation may be realized.”